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Where’s Hollywood headed? Michael Tolkin’s got some thoughts

Remember ‘The Player’? Either the novel by Michael Tolkin, or the Robert Altman film starring Tim Robbins? Well, it’s back!

More precisely, ‘The Return of the Player’ has arrived at your local bookshop.

In it, Tolkin updates the tale to incorporate changes in Tinseltown. “The book is what I think,” Tolkin says. But he also points out that most people in Hollywood now see their movies on DVD, and that Hollywood is being forced to confront technological change. “You can get a great home theater now for twenty thousand.”